The Real Need to Stop.

During the course of any journey, one needs to stop every once in a while, to look around, check that you’re actually moving in the right direction. To check the location of certain key features against those on a map, to ensure that you actually are where you think you are on the map, and then get back to moving towards your destination. This is how life must be treated too, I have found.

Stopping to look around and Find Direction

For me, this happened last December (2014). It was a time to look at the industry and understand where it was going, and look at me and my skills and understand where I was going, and where I wanted to go. The picture in my head didn’t match where the map told me I was, and where I was going. This was disconcerting. So I decided to look around and find my direction once again before restarting my journey.

These days I’m looking around more often to make sure I’m on the right course. As a result, my course corrections aren’t as big as they needed to be in the past. That is comforting.

You’ll see this course correction in the content of this blog, and my other online properties as I start adding more content. I will also be making larger, and more apparent changes.

How Often do You Make Course Corrections

How often do you look at your life and make changes that you need to? If you don’t look at the big picture often, do you find that you need to make bigger corrections? What would happen if you made more frequent evaluations and corrections on your life’s journey?

Leave your thoughts in the comments below, and I will answer immediately. I wish you well in all your endeavours.

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I’d like to introduce you to an Indian motovlogging channel called “Biking In India“. It’s a YouTube channel that explores the streets of Chennai, and beyond.

I’ve ridden the same bike for 11 years, and been through quite a few silly incidents with it in that time. Like this one. Through it all, one experience that has not been diluted is the experience of travelling on Indian roads. If anything, it has only become more intense.

Motovlogging YouTubers from India

“Biking In India” is one of the new wave of Indian Moto Vloggers who have started posting their videos on YouTube. Take a look at the channel trailer. I think it summarises this motovlogger’s channel quite decently.

Some of my favourite Indian Motovloggers

Some of the other biking vloggers in India that I find have something interesting to talk about and contribute are:

This list is in no particular order of preference and hopefully will be updated. I can see that the inspiration to motovlog has come from the west though. While in India riding a motorcycle is very common (although not sports or higher capacity bikes), it isn’t so common in the west. However, higher cubic capacity bikes are making their way to India and leisure riding is becoming more common, and with it comes the need to be a part of a unique group of individuals. Riding clubs are becoming more common, as are weekend getaway trips.

Documenting all these are the motovloggers mentioned above. Many of them also just document their daily commute to and from work, all the while showing off our ‘unique’ roads… Cows, Cops, jaywalkers, people who are unaware of the rules and more craziness.

Now go ahead and watch that video. You should also check out the other motovloggers that I’ve mentioned because their work is unique, and needs your support. See you around soon.

Vlogging and Motovlogging around the world

Note: I forgot to mention some of my favourite western motovloggers. Top of the list is Walteriffic, followed by others like Motonosity, Chase on 2 Wheels, and others. I distinctly have a preference for vloggers who don’t swear. Walteriffic is like that, as is Motonosity. Among the daily vloggers who keep things clean is “Casey Neistat”…

Amazing work by all these people, and I’m constantly amazed by the quantum of video content that is going online every single day! It’s a torrential downpour!

A little investigation showed that drush was running as with php CGI rather than CLI. It was a simple matter to find out the path to the PHP CLI and then to modify the alias to Drush and PHP in the .bashrc file (alternatively, you may have specified it in the .bash_profile or in .profile). So here’s what you SHOULD use:

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New Business Travel website: Coromandel.co

We have just launched the website www.coromandel.co. Coromandel SAS is a company based in Colombia in South America. They are a comprehensive Business travel and travel services company. Coromandel SAS aims to bring about a shift in the travel services paradigm in Colombia. Mr. Mano Chandra Dhas, is bringing his extensive travel and business travel experience from companies like BTI and Emirates from UAE to the Colombian city of Bogota.

Multilingual features

The website itself is a multilingual website that was originally handled by Drupal. It has gone through various iterations over the years. Currently, both versions of the website: in English and Spanish, are running off static HTML. It keeps the website response time fast and keeps the website itself light. Sitemaps are also generated for each language version.

Multilingual Travel blog

However, the Coromandel SAS Travel Blog is a different matter entirely. The Coromandel SAS Travel blog is also multilingual. However, this part of the website is run on WordPress. WordPress is probably the obvious choice when it comes to blogging tools, given the power, flexibility and ease of use that it embodies.

The content will be based upon Mr. Chandra Dhas’s extensive experience. It will be centered around the idea of sharing knowledge and having a conversation with others interested in the field. Eventually we feel that it will become a resouce that travellers can make use of for years to come.

Leave feedback

Do take a look at the website and leave your comments below if you feel that we could make any improvements. We are open to any suggestions, and would love to hear your opinion on the design, structure, and content of the website. Feel free to contact Susheel for this purpose. Don’t be shy now…

Of course, it seemed like the easiest thing in the world back then… But then, in 2010, the world still had Kodak films in production.

Now, allow me to show you the truly simplest way to install a drupal and add contrib modules – Drush. Of course, Drush allows for even more automation, but this workflow is quite sufficient for me at this time. It’s quite simple to install Drush on a Dreamhost Shared account with SSH.

I think most people are likely to pay most attention to the google plus announcement, with it’s promise of ‘circles’, hangouts, sparks and more… However, I think that the Google home page and the SERPS layouts are going to play a key role in the way people look at SEO and web design technologies in the future. As with everything else, there’s no looking back, and the future is just going to get more complicated. Accept it; move on…

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Recently ChennaiParkour was invited to create a Parkour workshop for IIT-M, and even though that did not work out as planned, it has made me notice that this seems to be the time of year for college culturals. One that I’d like to point out to you, and bring your notice to is LIBA’s Chrysalis. Of course, we bring it to your attention because we worked on the website. 😉